Anne Donovan Quotes
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I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.
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Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
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Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.
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I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
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I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.
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I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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DK: How often does the seriousness end and the irony begin in your work? M: Many times. I have a grand and endless capacity to find myself slightly ridiculous. I'm not pretending to be some wallowing prophet, for heaven's sake. I think we all have to sit down and look in the mirror and think, What is that absurd monstrosity?
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The passion for money is never fickle.
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There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.
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You don't just go and pick up a gold medal anymore.
